I don't know if I am free because I am happy or happy because I am free.

To become immortal, and then to die.

Give me more. Let's do what has not been done.

I like both slapstick and contradiction. Like philosophers.

If you have $300,000 to shoot a cigarette on a table, it's an enormous amount of money. Maybe that's why my movies are the way they are. But it's the only way I can make a living.

I like the idea of making films about ostensibly absolutely nothing. I like the irrelevant, the tangential, the sidebar excursion to nowhere that suddenly becomes revelatory. That's what all my movies are about. That and the idea that we're in possession of certainty, truth, infallible knowledge, when actually we're just a bunch of apes running around. My films are about people who think they're connected to something, although they're really not.

A critic is a soldier that fires on his own men.